[stella] RE: Original 2600 Development System

[Dan Boris <dboris@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Here is some information from Joe Decuir on how 2600 games where orginally developed at Atari:

 

 

Original 2600 Program Development Environment

 

6502 Cross Assembler, based on host
–E.g. timesharing machine, or DEC PDP-11

Hardware Emulator, w/RAM in code space

Debug monitor, for downloading and manipulating object code

HP-1600 series symbolic logic analyzer
–Capture and disassemble bus traffic
–Pre-trigger or post-trigger on bus v